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In most of the game refuges here described moose are 

 abundant; in all they are present under conditions favorable 

 to a considerable increase. Hunting and trapping in these 

 tracts are at all times forbidden. Some of the tracts are regu- 

 larly patrolled by rangers at all seasons; others are patrolled 

 only in the hunting season. In some the limits of the reserved 

 areas have been plainly marked, as in the case of the Riding 

 Mountain Preserve in Manitoba, where the timber and under- 

 brush has been cut for a width of ten feet along the boundaries ; 

 in others the bounds are less plainly indicated, but in all cases 

 game animals are free to enter and leave their sanctuaries at 

 will. 



The success of the efforts to propagate moose in Yellow- 

 stone National Park is related at page 38. Moose are found 

 in all portions of the park. "One of our largest moose herds," 

 writes the superintendent, "ranges in the marshes and meadows 

 of the Bechler River and Falls River Basins, in the far south- 

 western corner of the park, and is thriving splendidly. Recent 

 estimates place the number in the herd at slightly more than 

 500." (See page 51.) 



Mount McKinley National Park, comprising 2200 square 

 miles, was set aside by Congress in 191 7 as a recreation ground 

 and game refuge. In this area are "the principal breeding 

 grounds of moose, caribou, and [mountain] sheep for all of 

 the region between that part of the Alaskan range and the 

 Tanana River," writes Governor Riggs of Alaska in his 

 annual report. The park will be easy of access by means of the 

 new Alaska Railroad. No provision has yet been made, how- 

 ever, for maintenance and patrol. 



One of the largest and best-stocked wilderness sanctuaries 

 for game in America, in which moose are found, is the Superior 

 State Game Refuge in Minnesota, and adjoining it, on the 

 Canadian side of the boundary, the Quetico Provincial Reserve 

 in Ontario. The Superior Game Refuge was established in 

 1909. It is a State institution, the Superior National Forest, 

 under Federal jurisdiction, being practically coterminous with 



